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Pluto Has ‘Enigmatic’ Features Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen

Pluto Has ‘Enigmatic’ Features Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen

Pluto is a mysterious world. Located on the fringes of our solar system, beyond the orbit of Neptune, the dwarf planet is caked in exotic ice formations unlike anything we’ve ever seen — either on Earth or on other planets that we’ve explored so far. These strange icy structures, dubbed “washboard” and “fluted” terrains, consist […]

6y ago

Controversy Reignites Over Pluto’s Status As A Planet

Controversy Reignites Over Pluto’s Status As A Planet

A lot happened in 2006. Saddam Hussein was killed, Google purchased YouTube for $1.65 billion, and Pluto was downgraded to the status of “dwarf planet,” a new classification created by the International Astronomical Union (IAU.) In the dozen years since the controversial reclassification, the argument over Pluto’s status has popped up repeatedly, with polls as […]

6y ago

UCF Study Suggests Pluto Needs To Be Reclassified As A Planet

UCF Study Suggests Pluto Needs To Be Reclassified As A Planet

A new study led by a University of Central Florida researcher became the latest to maintain that Pluto has to be reclassified as a planet and that the reasons behind its demotion to dwarf planet status in 2006 don’t hold much weight. As recalled by BBC News in 2015, the debate over whether Pluto is […]

6y ago

Pluto Just Aligned With Earth And The Sun For The First Time In 87 Years

Pluto Just Aligned With Earth And The Sun For The First Time In 87 Years

This week marked a grand occasion for Pluto enthusiasts. Astronomers and sky watchers enjoyed a very rare opportunity to take a closer look at Pluto through their telescope, as the dwarf planet crossed the plane of the solar system for the first time in nearly a century, reports Popular Mechanics. Although demoted from its planet […]

6y ago

NASA Will Soon Release The First Global Maps Of Pluto And Its Moon Charon To The Public

NASA Will Soon Release The First Global Maps Of Pluto And Its Moon Charon To The Public

Although Pluto is no longer the ninth planet in our solar system, it is still the subject of in-depth research, thanks to the efforts of NASA and its New Horizons team. And with the New Horizons spacecraft still gathering information on the dwarf planet and its surroundings, the team behind the mission recently published high-resolution […]

6y ago

A Surprising New Study Has Revealed That Pluto Has Nearly 50 Miles Of Dunes Made Out Of Methane

A Surprising New Study Has Revealed That Pluto Has Nearly 50 Miles Of Dunes Made Out Of Methane

A group of planetary scientists, geographers, and physicists have just published a very special study that proves Pluto has nearly 50 miles of dunes that are made out of methane. The new research was conducted by carefully observing images of the planet that were taken in 2015 by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft. After scientists observed […]

6y ago

Pluto Could Be Made Up Of A Billion Comets, Suggests New Study

Pluto Could Be Made Up Of A Billion Comets, Suggests New Study

Pluto may not be considered a planet anymore, but astronomers are still trying to figure out how the dwarf planet came into existence in the outer reaches of our solar system. A new theory exploring the planet’s formation proposes a bizarre explanation for how Pluto was born. According to researchers at the Southwest Research Institute […]

6y ago

PSI And NASA Scientists Explain Why They Believe Pluto Is A Planet

PSI And NASA Scientists Explain Why They Believe Pluto Is A Planet

It was almost 12 years ago when Pluto was demoted from its planet status, leaving our solar system with only eight planets. However, there are still some scientists who believe that Pluto should be classified as an actual planet, and not as a dwarf planet, due to factors such as its geographical features. In an […]

6y ago

Six-Year-Old Irish Girl Writes Letter To NASA, Wants Space Agency To ‘Make Pluto A Planet Again’

Six-Year-Old Irish Girl Writes Letter To NASA, Wants Space Agency To ‘Make Pluto A Planet Again’

Cara O’Connor is a 6-year-old girl from Cork, Ireland, who wants to be a NASA astronaut when she grows up. And since she also wants to visit all of our solar system’s planets, there’s one thing she wishes the space agency would do, more than a decade after it reduced the number of planets in […]

6y ago

Alien Life In Our Solar System: Possible Number Of Worlds Increase With Pluto

Alien Life In Our Solar System: Possible Number Of Worlds Increase With Pluto

Pluto has now become the latest world circling the Sun that just might be able to sustain alien life, scientists are saying. According to Space, the possibility became apparent when researchers, while poring over data from last year’s New Horizons spacecraft fly-by, found evidence that what was once thought of as nothing more than a […]

7y ago

Alien Life On Pluto: NASA Confirms It Could Be Possible

Alien Life On Pluto: NASA Confirms It Could Be Possible

Could there really be alien life on Pluto? Some scientists are starting to speculate this could be a real possibility. Based on the data collected from the New Horizons space probe, scientists at NASA think there is a real possibility of primitive alien life on Pluto. Per Science Direct, the data from an earlier study […]

7y ago

Will Pluto Soon Become A Planet Again? Team Of NASA Scientists Hopes So

Will Pluto Soon Become A Planet Again? Team Of NASA Scientists Hopes So

Pluto, which was discovered in the year 1930, was the ninth planet in the solar system for over 75 years. In 2006, however, Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). As Space reported at the time, the vote to strip Pluto of its planet status was not without controversy. […]

7y ago

Alien Extremophiles Could Live High In Planets’ Atmospheres

Alien Extremophiles Could Live High In Planets’ Atmospheres

“Extremophiles” are organisms that live in, as their name suggests, extreme environments that other forms of life have proven incapable of living in. Tardigrades, or “water bears,” which can survive in both extreme heat and extreme cold, as well as high pressure, are among the most commonly referenced extremophiles. Some species found at the deepest […]

8y ago

New Horizons Data From Pluto Finally Arrives, And Astronomers Are ‘Putting A Bow Around It’

New Horizons Data From Pluto Finally Arrives, And Astronomers Are ‘Putting A Bow Around It’

NASA’s New Horizons space probe has been busy the past few years. After traveling roughly 4.67 billion miles to reach the dwarf planet Pluto’s system in July of 2015, the spacecraft is now moving on to its next target, an object discovered in the Kuiper Belt by the Hubble Space Telescope in June of 2014 […]

8y ago

Pluto: NASA Shows How Landing On Dwarf Planet Could Look [Video]

Pluto: NASA Shows How Landing On Dwarf Planet Could Look [Video]

Pluto, formerly the ninth planet, was first discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, according to NASA. Although it was commonly known as the smallest planet in the solar system for over seven decades, it was reclassified as a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 2006, per BBC News. It is now one […]

8y ago

Woman Brings Pet Monkey Wearing A Diaper Into Epcot At Walt Disney World, Meets With Pluto

Woman Brings Pet Monkey Wearing A Diaper Into Epcot At Walt Disney World, Meets With Pluto

Many people around the world use service animals to help them in the everyday activities of life. Most of the time, a service animal will be a dog or even sometimes a cat. There are those who have even had service animals which have been pigs or goats, but one woman has a monkey. Not […]

8y ago

Pluto Frozen Heart Mystery: Scientists Say Icy Ocean Likely Formed Like Body On Planet’s Moon

Pluto Frozen Heart Mystery: Scientists Say Icy Ocean Likely Formed Like Body On Planet’s Moon

Apparently, the mystery of Pluto’s “frozen heart” has been solved. Months ago, images from NASA’s probe of the distant icy planet caused many space enthusiasts to swoon over the depiction of a heart on the planet’s surface. Like many posts on social media, skeptics thought a savvy Photoshop artist created the heart-shaped visual. However, researchers […]

8y ago

Pluto: Ocean Discovered Beneath The Dwarf Planet’s Icy Surface

Pluto: Ocean Discovered Beneath The Dwarf Planet’s Icy Surface

Pluto, a distant dwarf planet in our solar system, may be hiding an ocean under its icy surface according to a new report from the journal Nature. “Pluto is an astoundingly diverse, geologically dynamic world,” the report begins. “The dominant feature is Sputnik Planitia — a tear-drop-shaped topographic depression approximately 1,000 kilometres in diameter possibly […]

8y ago

Pluto, Jupiter’s Europa And Mercury: Alien Life On These Incredibly Mysterious Planets?

Pluto, Jupiter’s Europa And Mercury: Alien Life On These Incredibly Mysterious Planets?

Mercury, Jupiter and Pluto are three planets that have puzzled astronomers and alien life hunters for decades. And this is because there has been little information gathered about them, given their distance from Earth and technological limitations. That said, the three planets have recently been found to have properties that can sustain life. And this […]

8y ago

Pluto Flyby: Final Pieces Of New Horizons Data Arrive On Earth For Analysis

Pluto Flyby: Final Pieces Of New Horizons Data Arrive On Earth For Analysis

It almost feels like the end of an era, but the last batch of data from last year’s Pluto flyby has just been sent back to Earth from NASA’s New Horizons probe. It did take quite a while for New Horizons to send the data back – Universe Today wrote that it took all of […]

8y ago

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